September 2009

Itchiku Kubota Art Museum brochure: Click on the images to enlarge them which will enable you to read the brochure on Itchiku Kubota. Taking photographs at the museum was forbidden. The painting above is from a handkerchief purchased at the museum.

The Narusawa ice cave is a tunnel leading down to an area of 0º where icicles and ice are formed. Blocks of ice were offered to the Japanese nobility during the time when freezers did not exist, and were used to cool rooms under their houses. It’s a dangerous cave where ceilings are low and the smooth rock floor is slippery.